When the urgent news of the Xuzhou Incident came, I, Zhang Shengren, was actually a little confused.
He knew that Wuning Town was a bit unreliable, but he didn't expect that at this moment when Zhang Zhou's tendency to dominate the world was very obvious, and the combat effectiveness of Helong's elite troops, the main force of the empire, was exploding, there would still be people who were so indifferent.
However, Zhang Shengren was still very calm in appearance, and he smiled contemptuously.
"Wang Jun is ignorant of current affairs. Xue Huairang and Pan Huankong have courage but not brains. Who can capture and kill them for me?"
Yang Jiye, Gao Huaide and others rushed forward and asked for battle.
Li Cunhui, who was beside Zhang Gao, also stood up and said, "Sage, let me go."
Yang Jiye looked at Li Cunhui with some dissatisfaction, "Third brother, you are already Li Wei Gong. Why are you competing with your younger brothers for so little credit now?"
Li Cunhui glared at Yang Jiye fiercely, then turned to Zhang Hao and said: "I don't need to bring more troops, I only need five hundred horses from the right feather Lin Guard.
However, your Excellency needs to give an order to An Taiwei, the defense envoy of Jiaodong Province, to select three thousand elite cavalry from each garrison in Jiaodong Province.
In addition, the imperial guards of Qingzhou Prefecture, Pinglu Town's children and ministers, are to be taken away. With five thousand people, we should be able to put down the unrest in Xuzhou. "
Zhang Gao looked at the confident Li Cunhui, pondered for a moment and said: "What I want is not just to calm down the unrest in Xuzhou."
Li Cunhui raised his hand and said, "I understand that the reason why I want to take away Liulang's credit is because I am afraid that he will be reckless.
Wuning Town in Xuzhou is called the Forbidden Army, but it is actually the former Xuzhou Wuning Army. They have a large amount of land on both sides of Surabaya, and most of the family records of Wuning Town are also located here.
After Erchen Xingye goes south, he will not attack Xuzhou City. Instead, he will take the Wuning town family on both sides of Surabaya as hostages and force them to release Dalang. "
It was Li Cunhui who understood Zhang Yan's thoughts. As a member of the imperial army, Wuning Town actually rebelled. This was shameful enough.
If Zhao Kuangzan, the son-in-law, suffered another defeat, the saint's face would probably be even less glorious, and it would be like being slapped twice.
Therefore, Zhao Kuangzan must be kept, because anyone with a discerning eye knows that the emperor is 'fishing' in this turmoil. But if Zhao Kuangzan is lost, it is like catching a fish, but the price is to use his son-in-law to make a nest. This is ugly. .
Zhang Gao thought for a while and said to Shaojian Dong behind him: "Send a lieutenant to Zhang Liecheng and ask him to follow Duke Wei.
Tell him that the first group of people who came out to make trouble in Wuning Town, as well as all the officers above Yuhou who made trouble, are not prepared to take any of them. "
After saying that, Zhang Gao thought for a moment and then continued to give instructions, "But at the same time, I have to tell Zhang Liecheng that I will also issue an edict pardoning the people in Wuning Town and let Duke Wei take it with him."
The word "taking the blame" suddenly rose in everyone's mind. The emperor wanted to use the edict to pardon Wuning Zhen, and put on a posture that he would risk everything for Zhao Kuangzan, and first get his son-in-law back.
Zhang Yan, the Shaoming Emperor, among other things, has a strong reputation. As long as he promises, he will definitely do it.
Therefore, if the upper and lower families in Wuning Town were held hostage and received an edict of pardon, Zhao Kuangzan would definitely be released.
But this solution was too frustrating for the emperor. Unless a circle of people died, it would not be enough to deter the newcomers. Therefore, Zhang Liecheng was the one who took the blame, and it was not easy to take the blame.
Because you can't come up and just say that the emperor's edict doesn't work. In that case, you would be telling the whole world that either the emperor can go back on his words, or you, Zhang Liecheng, want to rebel.
Therefore, it is very important to take the blame appropriately, neither implicate the emperor nor involve yourself.
As soon as they heard the emperor mention this issue, Li Cunhui, Yang Jiye, and Gao Huaide immediately looked at their noses and minds.
Only Pan Mei and the others, who were not yet in high status, seemed a little confused. They didn't know why the emperor would let Tangtang Jiaocheng County Duke and the commander of the Jinyi Guards do such a thing.
But others knew that it was obvious that the reason why the emperor asked Zhang Liecheng to take the blame must be because of the Hexi Chamber of Commerce.
It seems that in addition to Cao Wanjin and Kang Jinshan from the Hexi Chamber of Commerce, Zhang Liecheng also had to do this well before he could escape successfully.
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Xuzhou.
Wang Jun is much smarter than Zhang Yan, Pei Yuan, Guo Tiance, etc. think. He understands one problem very well, that is, to cause trouble, he will only have a chance when the emperor does not return to the Central Plains.
Once the emperor comes back, not to mention the 40,000 to 50,000 Helong elite soldiers, the emperor's own prestige can deal a huge blow to rebels like them, and may even frighten some people to defect on the spot.
Therefore, according to Wang Jun's plan, after taking Zhao Kuangzan hostage, he should immediately raise the banner of the Qing emperor in the name of Zhao Kuangzan and spread the word to all directions, directly mobilize his troops to the west, first capture Shangqiu Mansion, which is Songzhou, and then threaten Tokyo.
Now, the only people in the entire imperial court that can be drawn out are the three thousand people in the inner chamber of Hanshan City, and the rest of the pro-army and forbidden troops in Beijing combined, only have less than two thousand people.
With such a weak force to protect the two capitals, as well as to protect the safety of the queen and the princes, they would have to defend Luoyang and Kaifeng.
And if the imperial army takes the risk of attacking, then concentrate its superior forces to defeat them.
If they don't leave the city, they can seize all other cities and use the money from looting to recruit more desperadoes.
In the end, Luoyang and Kaifeng cities were used as bait, and they promised not to seal the sword for three days after breaking the city. I believed that they would get an army with high morale, and it would not be difficult to break the city.
At the same time, Zhao Zailihui personally led the former Wei Boya soldiers he recruited to Hua, Wei and other states, destroying the pontoon bridges on the Yellow River and delaying the troops from Hebei in going south for rescue.
In addition, there are still comrades in Chang'an and Luoyang who are responding. As long as one of them succeeds, a big deal will be decided. Especially in Chang'an, the chance of success is still very high.
As a result, the emperor's army was blocked north of the Yellow River, but the family records of his generals were all in Henan, Guanzhong and Helong.
With such rumors spreading, no matter how heroic Emperor Shaoming was, he could not stop soldiers who were worried about their families from fleeing.
Troubled times will come again, and the good times will return to the past when the sword in hand is the truth! '
It's a pity that the idea was perfect, but it got stuck at the first step.
Wang Jun's strategy is all about speed. If the speed is slow, the Tokyo court will begin to recruit guards and patrols from various places, that is, athletes from the Bow and Arrow Club and the Gun and Stick Club.
These people may not necessarily have very strong fighting power, but as long as they are led by a capable general, they will have no problem holding on to towns such as Shangqiu Mansion, which already have high walls and thick walls.
As long as they prevent the rebellious Wuning army from entering the hinterland of the Central Plains, they will have succeeded.
Therefore, as soon as Zhao Kuangzan was under control, Wang Jun asked Li Yuanzai, the commander of the Zuoying of Wuning Town who had conspired with him and the former commander of the Wuning Army's Yanei Infantry Army, to immediately summon the Wuning Army to attack Shangqiu Prefecture.
As a result, after Li Yuan saw Zhao Kuangzan being held hostage, he couldn't help but open the provincial treasury of Jianghuai Province and move the large amount of gold and silver stored there to his home.
When the soldiers under his command saw him like this, they suddenly felt that the world was back. They were in teams of three and five people, plundering street by street and neighborhood by neighborhood. As long as they were not Wu Ningjun's family members and relatives, no one could escape. Poisonous hands.
Xuzhou is located at the crossroads of water and land, and is a key node in the trade between Zhang Zhou and the Southern Tang Dynasty. The stable situation in Zhang Zhou in recent years has given some merchants confidence, so Xuzhou Prefecture has developed very well, and there are many wealthy merchants in the city.
Thousands of soldiers of the Wuning Army were plundering like locusts. The city was in flames and screams were everywhere.
In the end, the scum of the former Jinya soldiers recruited by Xue Huairang, Pan Huan and others could not restrain themselves and joined in the robbery.
They came from all over the world, and the Wuning Army had been looting for two or three days. When there was no money to be made, these people simply stopped and robbed the family members and personal documents of the Wuning Army in the city.
Okay! This tastes just right!
So, let alone the war, the two gangs started fighting, which was similar to the underworld in later generations. Even Xue Huairang and Li Yuanzai couldn't stop it.
The two sides fought fiercely in Xuzhou City for two or three days before finally being mediated.
As a result, not to mention the time delay, no matter the Wuning army, or the thieves and killers recruited by Xue Huairang and Pan Huan, they all made enough money in Xuzhou City, and everyone was busy transporting gold, silver, brocade and silk back home. I don't want to go out and fight for my life.
Are you kidding me? It makes me weak even just listening to it!
You, a foreigner from Hedong, actually want me to go all the way to Tokyo to fight with those steel monsters in Hanshandu. Do you think they are fools?
Wang Jun was dumbfounded. Only then did he suddenly realize that, not to mention how awesome people like Zhang Yan were, even Liu Zhiyuan, who he thought was a little hesitant, was also an amazing person. At least he could It took tens of thousands of people from Hedong to be killed before they reluctantly obeyed military orders.
No wonder that bitch Hou Yi kicked him out as if he had been bitten by a dog after asking Guo Wei and Bai Wenke not to participate. Looking at it this way, it was indeed true.
If Guo Wei or Bai Wenke were here, maybe we could suppress the thieves and killers below and let them act in accordance with military orders.
Xue Huairang and Li Yuanzai are useless people who can never achieve great things.
However, just when the Xuzhou turmoil planned by Wang Jun was in a mess, Liu Renzhan, the governor of the Shouzhou Qinghuai Army in the Southern Tang Dynasty, acted very quickly.
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As the only remaining famous general in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Liu Renzhan had a clearer mind than anyone else.
An emperor like Zhang Yan was fundamentally different from the Emperor Zhuangmiao of later dynasties.
Emperor Zhuangmiao kicked out all those close to him, favored traitors and actors, and attributed all the credit for conquering most of the world to himself.
Moreover, most of the warriors in Daibei and Hedong were promoted and re-employed by his father Li Keyong, and Emperor Zhuangmiao could not fully control them.
Emperor Shaoming was the first generation who started from a young age, and all the famous ministers and generals of Zhang Zhou grew up with him. Unlike Zhuang Miao who drove away his confidants, Emperor Shao Ming's confidants would always surround him.
Therefore, Liu Renzhan did not believe that Wang Jun and others could succeed, let alone that anyone could leave the emperor on the grassland.
Therefore, his request is very simple. Through this turmoil, he can get back the land of Huainan. Even Liu Renzhan in Huaibei does not ask for it. As long as he can get Huainan back, he can still establish a relatively stable defense line.
From then on, we can rely on the two strong fortresses of Shouzhou and Chuzhou to deal with the Zhou army.
